The 81st Episode : Ah so
[June, 1997 Innsbruck, Austria]
I spent for a couple of days with the president of the customer, meeting, eating, drinking… etc., while we of course spoke several things. One of his words had been on my mind.
He sometimes said ‘ah so’, I heard so, while I was speaking. That was very similar sound to Japanese, means ‘is it?, right?…‘. I thought he knew Japanese as it’s a short and easy word.
But it wasn’t. It was a dialect of this area, he said, means the same as the Japanese.
